Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure (and REH Influence

[almuric]

Also, it's almost obligatory for Lost World stories to end with the Lost World getting destroyed, for some reason.

[ChrisLAdams]

Jan 4, 2017 20:49:53 GMT -5 johnnypt said:

Jan 4, 2017 13:23:52 GMT -5 ChrisLAdams said:

I would have loved to have seen them stick to the novels and then had all the great sequences with the Wieroos in an Out of Time's Abyss movie.
I was just perusing the details of The People that Time Forgot (gads they strayed so far off base on both Land and People it ain't even funny) and anyway, just noticed that David Prowse played the part of 'executioner' - a fitting title!
It's intriguing that both he and Peter Cushing played in these B-rated ER(B), hehe, movies and later landed major roles in Star Wars - A new Hope.  


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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_That_Time_Forgot_(film)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Earth%27s_Core_(film)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Time's_Abyss

Maybe it's for the best, I think the Wieroos would've ended up looking like a cross between the Mahars and the gargoyles from that TV movie with Cornel Wilde from the early 70s!  

Judging from the quality of the Mahars etc, you're probably right!  I think I'll await a future adaptation.  
ERB's worlds are so replete with interesting plots I'm really surprised more of his works haven't been adapted to film.  
I've always tried to imagine what a really good version of Pellucidar would look like on the big screen, with the oceans and mountains curling up in the distance.

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Bob Abbett's Tarzan covers were the first ones I ever saw. He would be 90yrs old today.


www.erbzine.com/mag33/3336.html

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Frazetta from MAD Magazine:

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Ryan Harvey reviews ERB's classic, At the Earth's Core:


www.blackgate.com/2016/12/10/edgar-rice-burroughss-pellucidar-saga-at-the-earths-core/

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Jeffrey Jones would be 73 years old today...

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Back to the Stone Age (1937) collectors' reprint using the original plates:


edgarriceburroughs.com/store/product/back-to-the-stone-age-publishers-limited-edition/

[ChrisLAdams]

Jan 11, 2017 10:16:43 GMT -5 deuce said:

Back to the Stone Age (1937) collectors' reprint using the original plates:


edgarriceburroughs.com/store/product/back-to-the-stone-age-publishers-limited-edition/

Wish I could splurge on this - I've looked at that a dozen times - that printing plate would rule.

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Aug 10, 2016 16:15:30 GMT -5 andys said:

Aug 7, 2016 20:28:03 GMT -5 almuric said:

The Beasts of Tarzan, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's easy to see the influence this novel had on the recent movie (starts out of Africa, Jane kidnapped, pursuit up a river, Akut). Tarzan's enemy Nicholas Rokoff escapes prison and kidnaps Jane and young Jack, intending to have Jane raped (implied, because this was written 100 years ago) and Jack to be raised by a tribe of cannibals.

That's pretty messed up.

This is one of the more realistic Tarzans, in that there's no lost cities or dinosaurs, at least. It flows better than a lot of ERB's early work, with the only real hiccup being the ending where we have a double climax and a new set of villains introduced and defeated at the last minute. Still, definitely one of the best Tarzans.

That's one of my favorites. I especially like how Tarzan escapes being marooned by training the apes how to row a boat while he's got his lion buddy in the boat, too. He takes this motley collection of wild animals and turns them into a well-organized hit squad.

I reread that a couple of years ago. It might have a couple minor hiccups, but it's a great adventure novel.

I also think that REH mined parts of it for Beyond the Black River.

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Another great review by Ryan Harvey:


www.blackgate.com/2017/01/14/edgar-rice-burroughs-pellucidar/


I agree that there should've been a "Pellucidar Trilogy".

[johnnypt]

Jan 17, 2017 11:52:43 GMT -5 deuce said:

Another great review by Ryan Harvey:


www.blackgate.com/2017/01/14/edgar-rice-burroughs-pellucidar/


I agree that there should've been a "Pellucidar Trilogy".

It seems around this time, getting back to Tarzan again (and again) turned into a priority and he dropped the ball a few times with his other series.  The "missing" framing sequence to Warlord of Mars is another example I can think of where he sort of rushed to get to the story so he could move onto the next one.  By 1917, he was able to go back and forth a lot easier once he got the pattern down.  It's a shame Pellucidar really doesn't register in the popular culture, or else the Burroughs estate might be amenable to a "trilogy" pastiche extension. 

Oddly enough, the later "Pellucidar" trilogy of Tanar, Tarzan and Back to the Stone Age almost parallel The Land That Time Forgot.  You have the incident that starts off the sequence, the rescue mission sequel, then the third part that sort of branches off from the middle of the story.

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Virgil Finlay, legendary pulp artist, did several illustrations for the novella, The Quest of Tarzan (aka Tarzan and the Castaways) for Argosy magazine. All were thought lost, then a couple turned up:

www.erbzine.com/gw/GridleyWave310.pdf

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Burne Hogarth died 21 years ago today. His Tarzan strips were legendary.

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An excellent podcast featuring Ryan Harvey, one of the best critics/thinkers-about-ERB out there. A great listen.

dreamtowermedia.com/podcast/

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Jan 11, 2017 10:56:25 GMT -5 ChrisLAdams said:

Jan 11, 2017 10:16:43 GMT -5 deuce said:

Back to the Stone Age (1937) collectors' reprint using the original plates:


edgarriceburroughs.com/store/product/back-to-the-stone-age-publishers-limited-edition/

Wish I could splurge on this - I've looked at that a dozen times - that printing plate would rule.

Here's Tom Grindberg's Illustration for this edition.